Arkansas Medical Cannabis Patient Counter:

Patient Counter

Right now is an exciting time for the burgeoning medical marijuana industry in Arkansas. The five cultivation licenses were ratified on 10 July, 2018. The Arkansas Medical Marijuana Commission is sending out the dispensary applications to a third party for evaluation. Those licenses are expected to be issued closer to the end of 2018.

Upcoming events:

TBA

The latest:

As of May 16, the Arkansas Department of Health has issued 12,090 medical marijuana ID cards to Arkansas residents who meet one of the 18 qualifying conditions for the drug. After complaints from card...

I'll remember this whenever they decide to get around to my application which was sent in at the beginning of MARCH. Their office is unorganized and I've called many times in the past two weeks only to get the same answers..."When we get around to it" is one and "We are so backed up" is another. I have only talked to two different people in the past month...hire more employees! After almost two and a half years,Arkansas SHOULD have been prepared for this...but of course not.

Good thing I done mine the day I got it!

Why can’t use it it’s dated feb nowhere to get 5hr one way what a joke if one open in my area is not opening till?they say late summer and then is 2hr one way to get there I will die before I can get it thank Arkansas for nothing

My card has already stuck to the plastic sleeve in my wallet, scratching off part of my face before I could even use it.

Lol how much did we pay for these cards and how long did we wait? And they are not even laminated. Lolol

I was told that they were going to mail out new cards with new effective dates, is this true?

When do we get our new cards with the new dates? And when is NEA going to have a dispensary open? Patients need updates on what stages the dispensaries are in!

Already did but doubt use it anytime soon

Now we have to send more money reregister send more money for dr and new card what a joke

Are they not hard and laminated like in every other state? 🤦🏼‍♀️

I thought they were supposed to issue new, haven’t seen anything yet. This is one huge joke and we( the people who are sick as hell) can’t even purchase because they are dragging their feet

Why not make them like drivers license!!!💁🏻‍♀️

Should simply be an added enforcement on the back of your drivers license but hey that makes to much sense!

Yes my doctor told me to do it once I got mine and I did

Is anyone getting their questions answered? It doesn't seem like it. Every one is being ignored.

Debra Greeley Debra Allman Greeley

Does the Law enforcement know A person has a card ? asking for my Mom

Too funny i did mine today!

Haven't recieved my new aged card yet.

Y’all sound like a bunch of spoiled baby’s, I’ve been waiting years to be able to smoke without getting busted, so what if you have to jump through a few hoops, its better and cheaper then getting busted for illegal possession, suck it up, it could still be illegal....you don’t realize how lucky you really are....

Arkansas medical is a joke and it's cruel to continue to mislead it's patients to believe they are being treated fairly.

4% extra tax because its cannabis, the prices are way over what they should be. This has nothing to do with supplying patients good medicine its all about money for the state. Watching this unfold has really made me cringe.

Just buy the OK license, and get your stuff there. Still chewper after your first 2 oz.

I feel sorry for the people that had high hopes of getting the relief they need and the medicine they deserve. Instead they are having to pay astronomical prices for just a gram. Most of the people live on a fixed income who are having to make a choice. Either continue with the toxic poison from pharmaceutical companies or spend what little money they have to buy a small amount of cannabis. I have never seen such a corrupt system.

Ain’t even enough need powerful edible

The Arkansas medical cannabis program is nothing more than a state regulated Monopoly.
With medical cannabis being outrageously expensive, the dispensaries should lit Arkansas medical cannabis patients make monthly installment payments.

They need to stop over charging.

Someone is definitely getting rich!

Dear Arkansas Democrat-Gazette / ArkansasOnline.com errata report / note to editor / you do not need a prescription // simply need a referral from a physcian (most do so for a nominl visit fee of $100-200) to apply for a medical passcard online (mailed to you after approval) //// nor do you use a defamatory idiom when regarding medical substances, you use the clinical term. In this instance: Cannabis

That’s it? Y’all need to step your game up

$6800 per pound

$425/oz. that is ridiculous!
We have Hemp/CBD Flower, edibles, oils, vape in Memphis Ounce of Hope

Jenise Huffman

With or without sales tax????

This place is a joke.

The sad part of the legalization of cannabis is that it's not affordable for disabled and it's more for revenue not medical necessity! 😣

This just goes to show that this whole state is set up in corporatized Manner where is written into the law that there are only five facilities or six facilities that can actually produce medicine which in effect more or less creates a monopoly like structure for the dispensaries to sell the product at a set rate and not have to worry about it and not selling because people will buy it at whatever price they put it out there for what can we do about this?

Still waiting for a Bentonville dispensary. They slow to open.

Legalize it and y'all can make 10 times that .

They would have done better if they weren’t screwing people over. Very unhappy about the prices especially when other states charge at max $10 a gram.

I can get a half for 100 instead of a q and wax easy 40 lol they ripping y'all off bad i feel sorry for everyone wasting there money on this pathetic excuse for weed

Pathetic

Let the people grow. The state is just in the way as usual, bogging down the system. This isn't freedom. Many many more people need to have access because they have no medical records from treating themselves for decades on their own!! And so they are just illegally healed. If you want Colorado numbers and Oklahoma numbers then pass better laws like theirs ffs.

Thank you Ar for recognition of the patients!!!
Wish Tn was as advanced with our Department of Health!

Only 1,182 cards process, so how many actually went to the dispesery..
Not me

Yeah I've been one of those in process since I mailed it at the very beginning of March!!!!!! Today I called and they said they would get it done when they got around to it.😤 I'm fuming right now.

How long does the processing take?

Only thing I can say Arkansas. Going to have to do better than what they our. Their not cutting it they need to let us grow. When we get to much we can sale back to the dispensaries. We can all come out clear by helping each other.

now if we could just make it legal in 2020 and put and end to all the B S get out there and vote take a friend

My card is useless , can't afford it and no dispensary near me😥

Only southern Arkansas is getting the benefits so it doesn't matter.

I won't be a card holder. This state is a joke.

Why don't every one whine. We have come so far in this state. I don't have a medical card but if I did. I wouldn't be talking trash.

💚👽💚

The company O-Pen needs to be here along with Mary's Medicinal.

✊💚👍

Be careful going back to Texas. Lots of road blocks on the east side, going south.

When is mt. View opening

If Arkansas wants to see anything like Oklahoma numbers and allow ALL patients access to natural medicine open the rest of the dispensary’s let them grow and let patients grow.

My god... once more dispensaries opens and more than ONE grower who has everyone by the nuts prices will cut drastically

Great 👍

Absolutely fantastic

High price gummies 29.99 for 5..
Oh wait that CBD pricing lol

Yea but with less than 10 % thc which won’t be enough have to eat a whole pack and they will probably cost a arm and a leg

Sebrina Oliphant

So when are we getting our new cards re-issued for the people that got it in February? How much is 1 g of the oil going to cost

Should be Shaped Like The Leaf or Bud's 🍃

Ehh to bad the dispensaries are Hella over priced 😂 I'm good

Any word on when the Mt. Home Dispensary will be open?

I just need to know how to start the process to get my card. I cant find a dr to sign any medical forms for me

Many of us who want to apply simply don't fit into the small number of qualifying conditions.

Them prices are killer it's cheaper on the sreet

Brandi Hendricks

So what, the dispensaries that ARE open only sell flower?!?!? 😳
Why would they start out any different than any other state doing the same thing? I mean, OK had it ALL on the shelf the first day. AR thinks they got to "ease" their folks into the cannabis industry. SMDH AR is a joke in this industry.

Arkansas is a joke! 6 cultivators and 32 dispensaries! WTH Missouri is going to have about 4 times as many and be up and running in no time probably with better prices while Arkansas let's West Memphis have 3 dispensaries all in one small area! Probably going to supply Memphis and other parts of Tennessee and only 1 in NE AR.

How many more dispensaries are scheduled to be open in / near Hot Springs / Garland County or the immediate area?

This state is such a joke.

Please please please get Jefferson county open!!!
And those West Memphis locations $$$$&$$$&$&&$$$$$$
Way to go Arkansas!!!

Grace Simpkins

Those of us that dont have cars and dont have a bunch of money to blow.

Here Come the ConcentratesArkansas News- Bold Team cultivators announced their plan for cannabis concentrates and edibles which may be available at the two open Hot Springs dispensaries around the end of the month. Concentrates are said to be strain specific and include the ubiquitous "vape cartridges"; wax, shatter and sauce forms of "dabs", distillate syringes and the very interesting live resin concentrates which preserve terpenes often lost in typical concentrate processes. Oral cannabis preparations (edibles) will include "gummies" in 5mg THC or 5mg THC/5mg CBD versions. Topical salves are also said to be in production.Updates and test results when available.Natural State Medicinals is expected to be delivering their first harvest of cannabis flower in the next week or two. I will update as their information becomes available. ... See MoreSee Less